Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Edith Velmans, a 17 year old Dutch Jewish girl, wrote in her diary:-"We're all wearing our yellow stars. I can't stop laughing,. I can't help it. It's such a hoot, this star business. You hear the most ridiculous stories, and the jokes are making the rounds faster than the rumours. The people wearing the stars are greeted warmly by strangers, people take of their hats to you in the street, make all sorts of comments like "Keep your chin up" - it's wonderful. Today apparently even a German soldier greeted Father. I had sewn mine on my scarf, you are not suppsed to, but I'll just wait until someone says something about it. Everybody was incredibly nice at the Distribution Office. Someone said to me, "Why don't you take that silly thing off? Throw it away!" It really is a hoot."
(Edith Velman later hid with a Christian family and survived the War.

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Thanks for stopping by! Would you like a cup of tea or coffee? And please, sit for a spell. If you enjoy my posts, please feel free to follow me or subscribe to my blog. This is a word verification free, family friendly blog, so everything I share here is for all ages. I am a happily married man in my late sixties who lives on the Wirral peninsula, near Liverpool, in the UK.

I'm a blogger - and nowadays that seems to be my main occupation. Rambles from My Chair is my main blog. I’m a retired local government executive - now studying how to survive a neurological disorder that gives me various problems but, hopefully, a whole new outlook on life and an increased sense of humour and perspective. There is a saying in Sweden "man måste vara frisk för att orka vara sjuk" ~ "you have to be well to cope with being ill"....

I enjoy most forms of communication and postcards are a special favourite. I used to blog as Scriptor Senex which is Latin for Old Writer but now Google only lets me post as John Edwards.

“He’s not so old. He’s just the age that he is, that’s all.” (Gerald Hammond)